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Women and whiskey: Raise a glass to a complicated relationship

By Jessica Glenza, Digital First Media

Updated:
03/24/2014 03:35:38 PM EDT

Whiskey Women

It's no surprise that whiskey would be the favorite drink of a 1930s, open-cockpit bi-plane pilot. But it might be if that pilot were a woman. And despite her proven courage in the skies, Jeri Truesdell, a self-described “scotch woman,” who is now 100 years old, never felt comfortable drinking it in public.“I was discreet about drinking,” the naval aviator said. “I didn't go to bars with people. I never would have gone alone,” she said.But gender roles and norms ...

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